tuaw.com— One of our readers, flowolf, sent in this cool video of an AVI of the Simpsons playing on his iPod nano rocking iPod Linux.
Nov 24, 2005View in Crawl 4
The only thing besides the iPod video worthwile to play video on would be an iPod photo.Unless someone thinks of a way to play video on the shuffle. :)
Ok there's already been an article about video on ipodlinux. Everyone mentions how totally sweet it is but what they fail to tell you is it only plays uncompressed avi files, which are HUGE. Its pointless until compressed video is playable.
I don't know because I don't have a nano but with the flash drive using considerably less power than on the 5th generation ipod one advantage of the nano might be that you could actually watch multiple full length movies on one charge as opposed to the horrible battery life of the photo or video ipods when playing video.
anagamiNov 24, 2005
I imagine how this will do to the battery and the inconvenience of dual booting on something that's made only for hearing music.
sych0Nov 24, 2005
yea, what a pain in the ass to load linux just to play video. i certainly wouldnt bother
yensedNov 24, 2005
Why wouldnt you bother? Its not hard and you dont even have to leave your chair...
diehard2k5Nov 25, 2005
The only thing besides the iPod video worthwile to play video on would be an iPod photo.Unless someone thinks of a way to play video on the shuffle. :)
barbobotNov 25, 2005
"The point of this is?the screen is too small to make this worthwhile."if you dont get it, you never will
Closed AccountNov 25, 2005
I read in the official blog that they even managed to get Vorbis to work up to 99% real time playback. It looks promising.
twistxNov 25, 2005
Ok there's already been an article about video on ipodlinux. Everyone mentions how totally sweet it is but what they fail to tell you is it only plays uncompressed avi files, which are HUGE. Its pointless until compressed video is playable.
trogdoorNov 25, 2005
I don't know because I don't have a nano but with the flash drive using considerably less power than on the 5th generation ipod one advantage of the nano might be that you could actually watch multiple full length movies on one charge as opposed to the horrible battery life of the photo or video ipods when playing video.